“We have to go into the forest for the toilet,” Mr Alam’s wife Noor Shafah said.

The couple have six children, two of whom are disabled and cannot walk.

“They are keeping their stomach empty intentionally, not eating much rice, in order to avoid going to the toilet,” their mother said, casting a forlorn look at the crippled boy and girl — 15-year-old Jahangir Alam and 12-year-old Hadia Begum.

“People are suffering a lot,” their father said.

The Kutupalong camp where they are has doubled in size since the influx began nearly a month ago, and is now home to an extra 100,000 people.

Resistance to anything ‘permanent’

Bangladesh already hosted an estimated 400,000 Rohingya before this influx began and has openly stated it cannot support, nor does it want, this latest influx to stay.

So, there is a resistance to anything too permanent.

Aid agencies have had difficulty in getting the number of workers they need into the country, even going so far as to publicly call on Bangladesh’s Government to speed up approvals.

“Timely processing of permissions and visas for surge staff is required to support scale-up of operations,” reads a situation report produced by the International Organisation for Migration’s coordinating body this week.

It notes “some NGOs have begun receiving permissions”.

Bangladesh has promised more space and shelter, but the Government is concerned if it does too much it will face difficulty convincing the international community to pressure Myanmar to allow the Rohingya safe return.

Right now, no other country is volunteering to accept them either.

It is little wonder the Rohingya are sometimes termed “the world’s most unwanted” people.

“God only knows where my home is,” Bodhi Alam said, who had fled to Bangladesh previously in 1992 only to be deported again a year later.

“If I come to Bangladesh, they say its not my home, and if I go back to Myanmar, they say same thing.”